This year’s Antigua Sailing Week is set to start in less than two weeks. Competing will kick off with the optional Yachting World Round Antigua Race on Saturday, April 27. The full week of competing will begin the following day on Sunday, April 28 and will end on Friday, May 3, with Wednesday, May 1 off as Lay Day. A total number of 103 yachts have entered to date.
Antigua Sailing Week - Photo of Ambersail yacht by Kevin Johnson
Information
This morning the temporary information booth will be set up upstairs in the new building at Antigua Yacht Club from 9 am to 4 pm (not open Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st) during the period from April 16, 2013 until the Committee Desk opens on Thursday, April 25.
Dockyard Information
New this year will be an information booth located in Nelson’s Dockyard from Thursday, April 25, 2013 until the close of Antigua Sailing Week. Important notices and general information will be posted on a notice board at the information booth and volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions you may have throughout the week. Information booth hours will be Thursday, April 25 and Friday, April 26, 10 am to 3 pm; Saturday, April 27, 9 am to 5 pm; Sunday, April 28 through Friday, May 3, 8 to 10 am and 2 to 5 pm, with the exception of Lay Day Wednesday, May 1, 10 am to 2 pm.
Bareboat Briefing
There will be no general skippers’ briefing but there will be a bareboat briefing held in Nelson’s Dockyard on the afternoon of Saturday, April 27. The time and exact location are yet to be confirmed.
Get Ready to Party
Sailing Week Antigua Team have prepared a huge party line up throughout the week. Parties take place at Cloggy’s @ the Antigua Yacht Club, in historic Nelson’s Dockyard and on sunny Pigeon Beach.
